Definition of "apogee" []

• The point in the orbit of the moon or of an artificial satellite most distant from the center of the earth. (noun)
• The point in an orbit most distant from the body being orbited. (noun)
• The farthest or highest point; the apex: "The golden age of American sail, which began with the fast clipper ships in 1848, reached its apogee in the Gold Rush years” ( Los Angeles Times). (noun)

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• "The apogee was the application by AXE ECN for a license to open a new exchange."
• "Now, the earth occupies one of the foci of the ellipse, and so at one point in its course is at its apogee, that is, at its farthest from the sun, and at another point it is at its perigee, or nearest to the sun."
• "In this wise, at the beginning of that thirteenth century which Catholic apologists call the apogee of civilization, did Western Christendom destroy its Eastern flank."